Police Probe Two Carjacking Cases

Hartford police are investigating two unrelated carjackings that occurred earlier this week -- one in the city's South End and one in the North End.

The first carjacking occurred about 8:30 p.m. Monday in the vicinity of 129 Shultas Place, police department spokeswoman Nancy Mulroy said Thursday.

A Chinese restaurant deliveryman stopped his vehicle on the street and he was approached by a man pretending to be a customer. When the delivery driver rolled down the window, Mulroy said three other men pulled him out of the vehicle and all four suspects left in the 2003 Toyota Corolla. The driver declined medical attention, Mulroy said.

The suspects were described as four teenagers wearing white T-shirts and dark jeans.

The second carjacking occurred about 4 a.m. Wednesday in the area of 22 Fairmont St. in the North End, Mulroy said.

A 23-year-old man told police he was getting out of his vehicle when he was approached from behind. He said a man holding a semiautomatic pistol ripped a chain from his neck and took his keys and his cellular telephone, Mulroy said. The assailant, described as an 18-year-old man, about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds, wearing a black mask, a hooded sweat shirt and blue jeans, drove away in the man's 1997 Ford Taurus, police said.